IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Elcor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988-NM015-010-copy
  • User Pedon ID: S1988-NM015-010-copy
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0803
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60921
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 32.6732722
  • Std. Longitude: -104.2751222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet N of SE corner
  • Location Description: 3.5 mi NE of Lake McMillan.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: New Mexico
  • County: NM015—Eddy
  • MLRA: 42—Southern Desertic Basins, Plains, and Mountains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-MAF—Marfa, Texas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NM614—Eddy Area, New Mexico
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 32104-F3—Lake Mcmillan North, New Mexico

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-gypseous, hypergypsic, thermic Lithic Haplogypsids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Elcor
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2017
  • Classifier - Lynn Loomis
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yeso
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated gypsum, rock at 23cm
  • Geology: Yates Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    23 - 200

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    gypsic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—5

    5—23

    23—23

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    5

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    225

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P04222. common very fine and fine roots
    Byy—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) interior, pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) interior, moist; Error; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; SIC of Field texture class; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P04223. common very fine and fine roots
    R—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments. Hard gypsum.